Draw Lines In Maya With This Free Tool
Victor Schenck presented Cool Lines.
Cool Lines by Victor Schenck is a user-friendly tool for creating and managing stylized lines directly in Maya. It allows you to paint lines on meshes, generate lines from edges, assign preview shaders, and bake lines into the scene for final use.
The tool provides a simple interface to control line scale, resolution, and taper, and a dockable interface with live updates on scene changes. Cool Lines is fully built using PySide2 or PySide6, depending on your Maya version, and is compatible with Maya 2023 and later.
As Victor shared, this script was used in his graduation film at ESMA 3D, allowing to emphasize character emotions and add lots of intricate details. In the future, he plans to improve the current baking system and the interactive list UI by organizing strokes according to their corresponding target meshes. Cool Lines is still in its early stages, so any feedback is welcome to help improve this tool as much as possible.
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